The accumulated surplus to date in Social Security is $496 billion, and it is going to go way beyond those figures in the outyears. It is going to go to $1.1 trillion--not $1.2 billion. It is going to go to $2 trillion.
Discussing the projected surplus in Social Security during a floor speech.
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